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Creagrophorus hispaniolensis Peck and Cook 2014, new species

Description

Creagrophorus hispaniolensis Peck and Cook, new species

Figures 128, 129

Diagnostic description. Length 1.6–2.0 mm; greatest width 1.3–1.4 mm. Shining, with iridescence; color dark brown to black, venter paler. Head and pronotum with a few scattered punctures; elytra finely, sparsely punctate. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with two processes subequal in size, slender, acute, at and before apex. Aedeagus (Fig. 128, 129) shallowly, evenly curved dorsoventrally; inverted internal sac with two clusters of large spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Prov. Pedernales / Las Abejas, 1225m / 18°09’03”N, 71°37’48”W / 28JUL–03AUG1999 / G.O. Dominici, F.I.T.” (WIBF). Paratypes (2): DOM.REP.: Prov. Pedernales, ca. 35 km N Cabo Rojo, 1250m, Las Abejas, 26AUG– 09SEP1988, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (WIBF).

Distribution. Known only from at and near the type locality on Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet hispaniolensis (Hispaniola + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the occurrence of this species on Hispaniola.

Notes

Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
WIBF
Event date
1999-07-28
Verbatim event date
1999-07-28/08-03
Scientific name authorship
Peck and Cook
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Leiodidae
Genus
Creagrophorus
Species
hispaniolensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Creagrophorus hispaniolensis Peck & Cook, 2014